Diff for "HowTo/OracleOC4JProblems"

This page shows how you get Apache FOP 0.95 running under Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0). This solution was original from the fop-users mailing list.

http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-FOP-Transformer-Exception-(oracle)-td10638966.html#a10638966

Problem:

avax.xml.transform.TransformerException: XML-22900: (Abbruchfehler) Eine interne Fehlerbedingung ist aufgetreten.
        at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXTransformer.reportException(JXTransformer.java:881)
        at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXTransformer.transform(JXTransformer.java:477)
        at de.idv.report.servlet.printReport.doGet(printReport.java:41)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:713)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:370)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:871)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:453)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:221)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:122)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:111)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.procClientSocket(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:239)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.access$700(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:34)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler$AcceptHandlerHorse.run(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:880)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:298)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.characters(FOTreeBuilder.java:124)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLEventHandler.characters(XSLEventHandler.java:899)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:426)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:390)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:1325)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLCopyOf.processAction(XSLCopyOf.java:141)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLNode.processChildren(XSLNode.java:480)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTemplate.processAction(XSLTemplate.java:205)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLApplyTemplates.processAction(XSLApplyTemplates.java:242)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLApplyTemplates.processAction(XSLApplyTemplates.java:142)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLNode.processChildren(XSLNode.java:480)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTemplate.processAction(XSLTemplate.java:205)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:581)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:548)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLProcessor.processXSL(XSLProcessor.java:337)
        at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXTransformer.transform(JXTransformer.java:437)
        ... 16 more
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java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.fop.fo.FOTreeBuilder.characters(FOTreeBuilder.java:124)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLEventHandler.characters(XSLEventHandler.java:899)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:426)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:390)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTContext.reportNode(XSLTContext.java:1325)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLCopyOf.processAction(XSLCopyOf.java:141)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLNode.processChildren(XSLNode.java:480)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTemplate.processAction(XSLTemplate.java:205)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLApplyTemplates.processAction(XSLApplyTemplates.java:242)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLApplyTemplates.processAction(XSLApplyTemplates.java:142)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLNode.processChildren(XSLNode.java:480)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLTemplate.processAction(XSLTemplate.java:205)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:581)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLStylesheet.execute(XSLStylesheet.java:548)
        at oracle.xml.xslt.XSLProcessor.processXSL(XSLProcessor.java:337)
        at oracle.xml.jaxp.JXTransformer.transform(JXTransformer.java:437)
        at de.idv.report.servlet.printReport.doGet(printReport.java:41)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.invoke(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:713)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.ServletRequestDispatcher.forwardInternal(ServletRequestDispatcher.java:370)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.doProcessRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:871)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.processRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:453)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.serveOneRequest(HttpRequestHandler.java:221)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:122)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].server.http.HttpRequestHandler.run(HttpRequestHandler.java:111)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketReadHandler$SafeRunnable.run(ServerSocketReadHandler.java:260)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.procClientSocket(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:239)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler.access$700(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:34)
        at oracle.oc4j.network.ServerSocketAcceptHandler$AcceptHandlerHorse.run(ServerSocketAcceptHandler.java:880)
        at com.evermind[Oracle Containers for J2EE 10g (10.1.3.3.0) ].util.ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor$MyWorker.run(ReleasableResourcePooledExecutor.java:298)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Solution:

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For those that are interested, I did the following change in transformer initialization, changing the default transformer factory to apache one (default oracle was causing a problem) and it worked fine.

import org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl ;

TransformerFactory factory = new TransformerFactoryImpl(); // explicitely call apache xalan
//TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); // default oracle problem!
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